Cooling-chest.



c. T. RIVERS.

COOLING CHEST.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, 1913.

Patented Dec, 23, 1913.

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COOLING-CHEST.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

Application filed April 19, 1913. Serial No. 762,363.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE T. RIVERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cooling- Chests, of which the following is a full,clear, and eX- act specification.

This invention relates to a class of articles adapted for home use.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a cooling chest designed to be applied to the window of a building, or other structure whereby the air, especially during cool weather, may be utilized for preventing food products from spoiling, or during warm weather the article may be used as an ice chest if desired, and which is of a form adapted to be removably applied to the inside of the window so as to be convenient for use.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for permitting currents of air to circulate through the chest so that it may be thoroughly ventilated; and still another object of the invention is to provide means serving to permit the volume of air admitted to the chest to be regulated as occasion requires.

A further object of the invention is to provide means adapted to be adjusted to I permit the chest to be removably applied to windows of various widths; and still a further object of the invention is to provide a cooling chest which is susceptible of being made in any desired shape, or size.

detail, taken A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the" views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a top plan, partly broken away, of one form of cooling chest embodying my invention as applied to a window. Fig. 2 is a section, partly in on the lineII-II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front view, partly broken away, .of the device with the container removed therefrom, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view, partly fragmentary, of the supporting casing employed in the device. 1

The cooling chest, or device has a supporting casing 10 which is preferably substanber 13, and through the side tially rectangular in shape so as to be removably disposed between thelower crossrail, as 11, of the window sash, and the lower trim, as 12, of the frame of a window of a building, or other structure. The interior of the casing 10 serves as a ventilating chamwalls of'said casing are openings 14 and 15. Projecting from each end of the casing 10 are two spaced lugs 16, 16, and 17, 17 and secured by screws, or otherwise between each pair of the lugs is a strip, as 18 and 19. The strips 18 and 19 are disposed on alinement in opposite directions, and said strips are preferably of the same width as the height of the casing 10 so as to be also disposed between the lower cross-rail of the window sash and the sill of the window frame.

Serving to permit the casing 10 to be detachably applied to windows of various widths, I provide two adjustable strips, as 20 and 21. The strips 20 and 21 are of the same widths as the strips 18 and 19, and are also adapted to be disposed between the lower cross-rail of the window sash and the sill of the window frame. The strips 20 and 21 are expansibly movable relatively to the strips 18 and 19 so as to be adjusted to fit snugly between the stiles of window frames of various widths to of air between the sash and the frame when the device is in use, and to removably connect the strips 20 and 21 to the strips 18 and 19, upon one of the corresponding surfaces of said strips 18 and 19 at the free ends thereof are provided longitudinally disposed elongated plates 22 and 23. Lengthwise of each of the plates 22 and 23 is a slot, as 24 and 25, respectively, and in said slots are movably guided threaded bolts, or pins, as 26 and 27. The threaded end of each of the bolts 26 and 27 is directed through an opening provided in the opposed end of each of the strips 20 and 21, and upon the free end of each of said bolts is screwed a thumb nut, as. 28 and 29, so that when the strips 20 and 21 are suitably adjusted with relation to the strips 18 and 19 by tightening said thumb nuts the parts wi-ll be fastened together.

Both of the longitudinal edges of the side walls of the casing 10 are flanged, at 30 and 31. To the flange 30, and covering the opening 14leading into the chamber 13 of the casing-10 is held a screen 32 of closely intersticedmaterial to collect all dust, or the like whereby it may be prevented from passing prevent the passage into said chamber. Also .securedto the flange 30 is a funnel 33 which is preferably cone-shaped, as shown, and said funnel is of a length to extend to, or beyond the outer edge of the sill of the window so as to serve as a flue for passage of currents of fresh air therethrough and. to the chamber 13 of the casing 10. To the flange 31 of the casing is fas- 10 tened a container, or chest 34 so as to be disposed on the inner side of the window when the device is in' use. Through the side wall of the chest 34 adjacent to the casing 10 is an opening 35 which is in register 15 with the opening 15 of the casing 10, to

provide communication between the chamber of the casin'ggand the compartment interiorly of the'chst, andsaid chest has a door. as 36, to permit access to its interior. In the interior of the chest 34 may be provided one, or' more shelves, as 37, to permit food products to be properly arranged with-.

. in the chest so as to be kept'cool by the currents of air admitted thereto from the chamher of the'casing 10 which receives the air through the medium of the funnel 33. Through any suitable part of the walls of n the container, orcliest 34 may be provided ya desired .number" of perforations 38 where- 0 by a thoroughcirculation of thdair may be maintained in the chest 34, and to regulate the feed of air to the chest and to obviate. subjecting the food-products to too intense a temperature during cold weather as well 5 as cutting-0d the supply of air entirely when ice is used therein during warm weather, I provide a slide, as 39. The slide 39 is adapted to be moved back and forth longitudinally of the interior of the casing 10 40 whereby the passage of air through the opening 15 of said casing may be controlled, and one end of the slide extends through a vertically disposed slot provided in one end of the casing. In order to permit the slide 5 39 to be conveniently adjusted, the end thereof projecting beyond the exterior of the casing 10 is pivoted to a lever, as 40, which is of sufficient length to extend somewhat above the chest 34, and the central portion of said lever is pivoted, at 41, the

chest so that by swinging the free end of said lever in a direction longitudinally of the chest the slide will accordingly be adjusted to partially, or entirely open, or 5 close the opening 15 of the casing 10 whereby the volume of air admitted into the chest may be regulated as occasion requires.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without dei parting from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent l. The combination with a window, of a chest disposed interiorly of the window, and adapted for holding articles, a supporting casing connected to the chest and removably held between the window sash and the sill of the window frame, said casing having an opening leading from its interior to the exterior of the window for the admission of air, means providing communication between the interior of the chest and the interior of the supporting casing, means adapted to permit the passage of air from the supporting casing to the chest to be regulated, and a funnel connected to the casing around its opening, and extending outwardly of the exterior of the window.

2. The combination with a window, of a chest disposed interiorly of the window, and

having an openlng through one of its walls,

said chest being adapted for holding articles, a supporting casing connected to the chest and removably held between the window sash and the sill of the window frame, said casing having an opening leading from its interior to the exterior of the window for the admission of air, and having an opening communicating with the opening of the chest, an adjustable slide serving to permit the passage of air through the communicating openings to be regulated, and means serving to permit the slide to be manually adjusted, I

3. The combination with a window, of a chest disposed interiorly of the window, and having an opening through one of its walls, said chest being adapted for holding articles, a supporting casing connected to the chest and removably held between the window sash and the sill of the window frame, said casing having an opening leading from its interior to the exterior of the window for the admission of air, and having an opening communicating withthe opening of the chest, an adjustable slide serving to permit the passage'of air through the communicating openings to be regulated, means serving to permit the slide to be manually adjusted, and a funnel connected to the casing around one of its openings, and extending outwardly of the exterior of the window.

This specification signed and witnessed this eighteenth day of April, A. D. 1913.

' CLARENCE-T. RIVERS. Witnesses:

Ron'r- B. Anno'rr, M. DERMODY. 

